MCP (Model Context Protocol): How Anthropic’s Open Standard Is Reshaping AI Tool Integration
For years, integrating AI models with external tools has been a patchwork of proprietary APIs, brittle glue code, and vendor-specific…
API Rate Limiting in Practice: Token Buckets, Sliding Windows, and Client-Side Handling
Last month, one of our payment processing services went down for 47 minutes. The root cause wasn’t a bug in…
Why Your API Needs Versioning From Day One: Strategies That Won’t Break Clients
API versioning is cheap to add on day one and expensive to retrofit later. A practical guide to URL, header,…
Understanding Rate Limiting: Algorithms, Implementation, and Why Your API Needs It
Every API you expose to the internet will eventually be abused. Automated scrapers, credential stuffing bots, misbehaving integrations, and sometimes…
REST vs GraphQL in 2026: When Each Makes Sense
A practical decision framework for choosing between REST and GraphQL in 2026, based on real tradeoffs not ideology.
API Design Mistakes That Will Haunt You: Lessons From Production
Eight API design mistakes that become expensive once clients depend on your endpoints — versioning, error handling, rate limiting, idempotency,…